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Oscars 2021 Full Nominations List: ‘Mank’ tops with 10 nods, ‘Borat 2’, ‘Nomadland’ and ‘Minari’ give tough competition

Wanna know who received the most nominations at this year's Academy Awards? Take a look at the nominations list

Who will win the maximum Oscar awards in 2021? The nominations for the 93rd Annual Academy Awards were announced Monday morning, March 15, 2021, and definitely featured some unexpected twists. Movies like ‘Nomadland’ and ‘Mank’ were considered to be frontrunners for this year’s event and they certainly garnered numerous nominations. Meanwhile, ‘Borat 2’, ‘Promising Young Woman’ and ‘Minari’ gave a tough competition to the frontrunners by garnering multiple nominations across various categories.

The movie theatres in the US were forced to shut their door for the public due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The global health crisis also prompted the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to delay this year’s ceremony and change its eligibility criteria.

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Yet filmmakers found a way to get their projects out via streaming, video-on-demand.

So who will make the cut, and who will be left out? Take a look at all the nominees in all the top categories. The nominations were announced by Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra Jonas.

The 93rd Academy Awards ceremony will take place on April 25, 2021, at the Dolby Theatre and will be televised live on the ABC Television Network and in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.

Best Picture

‘Nomadland’ 
‘Minari’
‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ 
‘Promising Young Woman’ 
‘Sound of Metal’ 
‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ 
‘Mank’ 
‘The Father’

Best Director

Chloé Zhao (‘Nomadland’)
Emerald Fennell (‘Promising Young Woman’)
David Fincher (‘Mank’)
Lee Isaac Chung (‘Minari’)
Thomas Vonterberg ('Another Round)

Best Actress

Carey Mulligan (‘Promising Young Woman’)
Viola Davis (‘Ma Rainey's Black Bottom’)
Frances McDormand (‘Nomadland’)
Andra Day (‘The United States vs. Billie Holiday’)
Vanessa Kirby (‘Pieces of a Woman’)

Best Actor

Riz Ahmed (‘Sound of Metal’) 
Chadwick Boseman (‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’) 
Anthony Hopkins (‘The Father’) 
Gary Oldman (‘Mank’) 
Steven Yeun (‘Minari’) 

Best Supporting Actress

Olivia Colman (‘The Father’)
Youn Yuh-jung (‘Minari’)
Maria Bakalova (‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’)
Amanda Seyfried (‘Mank’)
Glenn Close (‘Hillbilly Elegy’)

Best Supporting Actor

Daniel Kaluuya (‘Judas and the Black Messiah’)
Leslie Odom Jr. (‘One Night in Miami’)
Sacha Baron Cohen (‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’)
Paul Raci (‘Sound of Metal’)
Lakeith Stanfield (‘Judas and The Black Messiah’)

Best Adapted Screenplay

‘Nomadland’ (Chloé Zhao)
‘News of the World’ (Luke Davies & Paul Greengrass)
‘The White Tiger' (Ramin Bahrani)
‘One Night in Miami’ (Kemp Powers)
‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm' (Sacha Baron Cohen, Peter Baynham, Jena Friedman, Anthony Hines, Lee Kern, Dan Mazer, Erica Rivinoja & Dan Swimer)

Best Original Screenplay

‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ (Aaron Sorkin)
‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ (Will Berson, Shaka King, Keith Lucas, Kenneth Lucas)
‘Promising Young Woman’ (Emerald Fennell)
‘Minari’ (Lee Isaac Chung)
‘Sound of Metal’ (Derek Cianfrance, Abraham Marder & Darius Marder)

Best International Feature Film

‘Another Round’ (Denmark) 
‘Better Days’ (Hong Kong)
‘Collective’ (Romania) 
‘The Man Who Sold His Skin’ (Tunisia)
‘Quo Vadis, Aida?’(Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Best Animated Feature Film

‘Onward’ (Pixar) 
‘Over the Moon’ (Netflix) 
‘Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon’ (Netflix) 
‘Soul’ (Pixar)
‘Wolfwalkers’ (Apple TV Plus/GKIDS)

Best Original Score

‘Soul’
‘Da 5 Bloods’
‘Mank’
‘Minari’
‘News of the World’

Best Original Song

‘Fight for You,’ (‘Judas and the Black Messiah’) 
‘Hear My Voice,’ (‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’) 
‘Húsavík,’ (‘Eurovision Song Contest’) 
‘Io Si (Seen),’ (‘The Life Ahead’) 
‘Speak Now,’ (‘One Night in Miami’) 

Best Costume Design

‘Emma,’ Alexandra Byrne 
‘Mank,’ Trish Summerville 
‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,’ Ann Roth 
‘Mulan,’ Bina Daigeler 
‘Pinocchio’ 

Best Animated Short Film

‘Burrow’ (Disney Plus/Pixar)
‘Genius Loci’ (Kazak Productions) 
‘If Anything Happens I Love You’ (Netflix) 
‘Opera’ (Beasts and Natives Alike) 
‘Yes-People’ (CAOZ hf. Hólamói) 

Best Live Action Short Film

‘Feeling Through’ 
‘The Letter Room’ 
‘The Present’ 
‘Two Distant Strangers’ 
‘White Eye’ 

Best Sound

‘Greyhound’ — Odin Benitez, Jason King, Christian P. Minkler, Michael Minkler, Jeff Sawyer 
‘Mank’ — Ren Klyce, Jeremy Molod, David Parker, Nathan Nance, Drew Kunin 
‘News of the World’ — John Pritchett, Mike Prestwood Smith, William Miller, Oliver Tarney, Michael Fentum 
‘Soul’ — Coya Elliott, Ren Klyce, David Parker, Vince Caro 
‘Sound of Metal’ — Phillip Bladh, Nicolas Becker, Jaime Baksht, Michelle Couttolenc, Carlos Cortés, Carolina Santana 

Best Animated Short

‘Burrow’ (Disney Plus/Pixar)
‘Genius Loci’ (Kazak Productions) 
‘If Anything Happens I Love You’ (Netflix) 
‘Opera’ (Beasts and Natives Alike) 
‘Yes-People’ (CAOZ hf. Hólamói)